BLAG 90k Alpha

jebba · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: BLAG 90k Alpha

I have made some initial images of BLAG 90k *alpha*. These are test releases. They are still a bit messy, but install ok.

I suggest subscribing to blag-devel and blag-noise if you are interested in using these releases.
http://www.blagblagblag.org/mailinglist/

Images available here:
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/linux/90000/en/iso/

-Jeff

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

jebba · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject:

Hah! I saw you had boca before, but river??!? ;)

john maclean · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject:

So netiso does a network install and the other iso images are the traditional "full iso" images?

jebba · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

john maclean · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject:

boy, that was fast.... I' m wgetting these images here:- http://ks355011.kimsufi.com/90000/en/iso/ as I seem to be getting very poor download speeds in the UK. Dunno why. Anyways, expect a new mirror once I install 90k.

jebba · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

jebba · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject:

I'm glad Boca got BLAGHEAD :)

extraspecialbitter · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject:

Who will win El Superclásico between BLAGHEAD and BLAG 90K?!?

john maclean · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:09 am Post subject:

Tested a netinstall installation and created some screenshots during the process. Will add more detail later in the meantime...
http://ks355011.kimsufi.com/90000/anaconda-screenshots/

jebba · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject:

noldrin · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

That looks amazing, can't wait to try it out

john maclean · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

I took tons more screen shots. Installation went fine but I was unable to log into either my non-root account or as root via gnome.This is a long version of the install.

=== installation ===
- Grab net install iso image for 90k [very slow for me in the UK so I put them here also http://ks355011.kimsufi.com/90000/en/iso/]
- Hit enter once you can boot from the cd.
- Select url as an installation method
- The url is ftp://blagblagblag.org/pub/blag/linux/90000/en/os/i386/images
- Carry on the installation as per a usual install
- Good news is that partitions can be encrypted simply. Better encrypt your swap as well if you are going to encrypt ~/home and you use a laptop.
- The first time around I went with the default packages and anaconda complained of a package conflict. I think that it was between gnome and blag logos or some desktop-logo thing. Anaconda also complained of the repo, some foo.xml issue. (Sketchy details as I was very tired at the time). The second time around I went for a base install, removing everything apart from "base system". Anaconda still proceeded to install 622 packages. grrr
- After the install box booted, hardware detected and I as presented with a snazzy gdm login.
- Was not able to use gdm to login at all, either as root or jayeola. I used a virtual term to login and this confirmed that my UK key map was correct.
- Selinux was disabled so it wasn't the package from the nice chaps from the NSA that was locking me out.

- After a number of failed log in attempts I've rolled back to 70k.

=== things to note ===
- Use the shell, Luke! There's a fully functional VT on VT/3 [ctrl]+[fn]+[alt] on my kb. Use that to ssh to other servers. very handy ;-)
- print screen. [shift]+[print screen] on my kb. All Screen shots are saved in /tmp/anaconda-screenshots. Use a VT and scp them to another box.
- Install log. /tmp/anaconda.log (or summink like that). Useful for Jebba if an installation fails

jebba · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: